Appeal No. 1998-0596
Application 08/259,370
The rejection of claims 46, 47, 49 and 50
Our affirmance of the rejection of claims 46, 47, 49 and 50 is based only on the
arguments presented by appellants in their brief. Arguments not raised in the brief are not
before us, are not at issue, and thus are considered as waived.
Independent claim 46 is reproduced below:
46. An integrated suspension/slider/transducer assembly comprising:
a suspension;
an integrated slider and transducer mounted on the suspension, the
integrated slider and transducer having an air bearing surface;
each of the suspension and the integrated slider and transducer consisting
essentially of a plurality of thin film layers formed by layer upon layer of thin film
depositions;
each thin film layer having first and second thin film layer surfaces which are
bounded by first and second edge surfaces and first and second side surfaces; and
the air bearing surface of the integrated slider and transducer consisting of
only second edge surfaces of the thin film layers of said integrated slider and transducer.
Claims 47, 49 and 50 each depend from claim 46. These four claims do not recite
the features discussed above which distinguish the other claims from the combination of
Kant and Ainslie. None of them requires the thin films for the suspension to be deposited
or formed on the integral transducer and slider. Hereinafter, we consider the appellants’
various other arguments with regard to claims 46, 47, 49 and 50.
According to the appellants, Kant’s plastic sheets 42, 52 and 56 of the suspension
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